Category Archives: Canadian Press
Defensive lineman Linden Gaydosh making yet another comeback with Roughriders
SASKATOON - Linden Gaydosh is making yet another football comeback. The six-foot-three, 310-pound defensive tackle has battled injuries throughout his four-year pro football career. And while former N...
Jun 03, 2017
More tests to see if brothers criminally responsible in Calgary teen sex attack
CALGARY - Two brothers who randomly kidnapped a teenage girl and repeatedly sexually assaulted her will undergo further psychological tests to determine if they are criminally responsible for their ac...
Jun 03, 2017
The Latest: GOP fundraising off Griffin photo controversy
LOS ANGELES - The Latest on Kathy Griffin (all times local): 2:20 p.m. The California Republican Party is soliciting donations based on images of Kathy Griffin posing with the likeness of President Do...
Jun 03, 2017
N.B. sex offender faces new charge after being placed in special care home
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A convicted sex offender is facing a new sexual assault charge after he was placed in a special care home for people with disabilities. Andrew Michael Douglas, 29, pleaded not guilt...
Jun 03, 2017
Tiny P.E.I. hamlet readies Stompin' Tom Centre for 'perfect' Canada Day opening
SKINNERS POND, P.E.I. - More than two decades after the residents of Skinners Pond, P.E.I., began trying to scrape together the money to build a centre dedicated to the music and life of their most fa...
Jun 03, 2017
Jon Stewart among those praising late NYC firefighter
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. - Jon Stewart fought back tears Friday as he described his friendship with a retired New York City firefighter who worked in the rescue effort following the Sept. 11 terror attacks an...
Jun 03, 2017
Ontario premier calls Trump's withdrawal from climate change agreement appalling
TORONTO - Ontario’s premier is joining a growing number of politicians condemning Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement. Kathleen Wynne says the U.S. pr...
Jun 03, 2017
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. AP checked these out; here ar...
Jun 03, 2017
Former NY Knick Charles Oakley heading to trial in August
NEW YORK - Former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley has chosen to go to trial in August on charges he struck a security guard at Madison Square Garden. Oakley appeared briefly before a Manhattan j...
Jun 03, 2017
Tory party takes disciplinary action after membership list shared
OTTAWA - The Conservative party is demanding that the National Firearms Association destroy a party membership list that it appears to have illicitly obtained from one of the camps in the recent leade...
Jun 03, 2017